• The quantification of shading for the built environment in South Africa 

  Conradie, Dirk CU (Department of Science and Technology, also CSIR, 2018-10)

  A bioclimatic analysis of South African towns and cities indicates that solar protection is the single most important passive design measure to reduce energy usage and to improve internal comfort for the built environment ...
• What to adapt for? Climate change risk profiles for South African cities 

  Le Roux, Alize; Van Niekerk, Cornelia W; Arnold, Kathryn A; Pieterse, Amy; Davis, Claire L (2018-03)

  Climate change adaptation has increasingly been included in national policies because of the far-reaching effects climatic changes have on places and people.
• Sun, shade and natural daylight in South African town planning, with emphasis on Pretoria 

  Conradie, Dirk CU (AJOL, 2018)

  A bioclimatic analysis of different South African towns and cities indicates that, if the correct mix of passive design principles is used, they all have a significant passive design potential. Of all such measures, solar ...
• Making Africa’s roads more resilient to climate change 

  Paige-Green, P; Verhaeghe, Benoit M (2018-10)

  The inevitable impacts of climate change on the already stressed low volume rural road networks in Africa will have dire consequences in many countries. These networks generally suffer from a lack of appropriate construction ...
• Design strategies of an off-grid solar PV plant for office buildings: A case study of Johannesburg 

  Phasha, TC; Aderemi, BA; Chowdhury, SP; Olwal, TO; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI (IEEE, 2018-06)

  Renewable energy systems based on solar resources are steering the way in grid-connected applications to meet present energy demands. This research work tends to investigate the design and feasibility of RE systems using ...
• Trace metal enrichment observed in soils around a coal fired power plant in South Africa 

  Dalton, A; Feig, Gregor T; Barber, K (National Association for Clean Air, 2018-12)

  A site assessment was conducted at a coal fired power plant in South Africa to determine whether surrounding soils were being enriched with trace metals resulting from activities at the power plant. It was found that ...
• Implementing a GIS based methodology for determining highly vulnerable rural access roads to a changing climate in Ethiopia 

  Arnold, Kathryn A; Le Roux, Alize; Makhanya, Sibusisiwe A (2018-09)

  Climate-related natural disasters have been steadily increasing in both incidence and intensity across the globe over the last century. This is especially true for Ethiopia given the country’s high and recurrent exposure ...
• Techno-economic feasibility of hybrid solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage power system for a mobile cellular base station in Soshanguve, South Africa 

  Aderemi, BA; Chowdhury, SPD; Olwal, TO; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI (MDPI, 2018-06)

  Over the years, sustainability and impact on the environment, as well as operation expenditure, have been major concerns in the deployment of mobile cellular base stations (BSs) worldwide. This is because mobile cellular ...
• Malaria incidences in South Africa linked to a climate mode in southwestern Indian Ocean 

  Behera, SK; Morioka, Y; Ikeda, T; Doi, T; Ratnam, JV; Nonaka, M; Tsuzuki, A; Imai, C; Kim, Y; Sweijd, Neville A (Elsevier, 2018-09)

  Millions of individuals are at risk of malaria infection in sub-Saharan Africa. Compared to other highly affected countries on the continent, South Africa has an excellent record of malaria control. Nevertheless, the ...
• Impacts of severe weather events on implementing the waste hierarchy - the case of Ethekwini metropolitan municipality 

  Muswema, Aubrey P; Chetty, P; Okem, P; Oelofse, Suzanna HH (2018-10)

  This case study is an overview investigating the interaction between severe weather incidents and solid waste management. The study seeks to understand how extreme weather events affect the implementation of the waste ...
• Water use dynamics of young and mature apple trees planted in South African orchards: a case study of the Golden Delicious and Cripps’ Pink cultivars 

  Ntshidi, Zanele; Dzikiti, Sebinasi; Mazvimavi, D (Copernicus Publications, 2018-05)

  Apple orchards have previously been bearing 60–80 t ha-1 at most. However in recent years yield has increased to more than 100 t ha-1. There is need to understand the water requirements of the high yielding orchards, given ...
• Implementation of a visco-plastic sea ice model into OpenFOAM 

  Bogaers, Alfred EJ; Jansen van Rensburg, GJ; Marquart, R; Skatulla, S (2018-09)

  In this paper, we outline the implementation of Hibler’s visco-plastic (VP) sea ice model into OpenFOAM, an opensource finite-volume modelling toolkit. Hibler’s visco-plastic model is arguably the most widely used description ...
• Signature of the Agulhas Current in high resolution satellite derived wind fields 

  Krug, Marjolaine J; Schilperoort, D; Collard, F; Hansen, MW; Rouault, M (Elsevier, 2018-11)

  5 years of Systematic Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) acquisitions and 8 years of observations from the Jason 2 altimeter are used to investigate the signature of the Agulhas Current on high resolution ...
• Low cost green technology for domestic wastewater treatment for reuse and beneficiation 

  Oberholster, Paul J; Cheng, Po Hsun; Steyn, Maronel; Genthe, Bettina; De Lange, Willem J; Tancu, Yolanda; Claassen, Marius; Monjerezi, M; Kenebatho, P (2018-06)

  The project describes a self-sustainable technology requiring no chemicals or electricity. Algae is grown in algae bio-reactors and the ponds are dosed on a monthly basis for treatment. Feasibility of the treatment technology ...
• Obstacles facing Africa's young climate scientists 

  Dike, VN; Addi, M; Andang’o, HA; Attig, BF; Barimalala, R; Diasso, UJ; Du Plessis, Marcel; Lamine, S; Mongwe, Ndunisani P; Zaroug, M; Ochanda, VK (Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2018-05)

  Current and future climate change poses a substantial threat to the African continent. Young scientists are needed to advance Earth systems science on the continent, but they face significant challenges. Future climate ...
• Evaluation of uncertainty in capturing the spatial variability and magnitudes of extreme hydrological events for the uMngeni catchment, South Africa 

  Kusangaya, S; Warburton Toucher, ML; Archer van Garderen, Emma (Elsevier, 2018-02)

  Downscaled General Circulation Models (GCMs) output are used to forecast climate change and provide information used as input for hydrological modelling. Given that our understanding of climate change points towards an ...
• The feasibility of low cost algae-based sewage treatment as a climate change adaption measure in rural areas of SADC countries 

  Oberholster, Paul J (2018-07)

  Employing specific algae treatment to treat municipal domestic waste water effluent presents an alternative practice to improving water quality effluent of existing rural pond systems in Southern Africa. In the present ...
• Low cost algae-based tertiary treatment for WWTW in rural areas of developing countries 

  Oberholster, Paul J; Cheng, Po Hsun H (2016-09)

  This presentation discusses a low cost algae-based tertiary treatment for waste water treatment works in rural areas of developing countries. The focus areas of the presentation include water availability in Africa and ...
• QMRA of a wastewater system undergoing a novel treatment process for rural environments in a developing country 

  Genthe, Bettina; Oberholster, Paul J (2017-05)

  Conventional wastewater treatment processes such as activated sludge and biofilms are seldom used in rural South Africa due to lack of electricity and financial resources. This presentation focuses on phyco-remediation as ...
• Climate change challenges in the water sector of SADC 

  Oberholster, Paul J (2016-10)

  The focus area of this presentation is on water availability and predictions in Southern Africa.

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